In Japan the parliament enacted a law to ban child prostitution and child pornography.
Links: Japan, Sex

1999 May 20

In San Francisco the body of Julie Christine Day (24) was found partially buried at a construction site in China Basin. Jehad Baqleh (31), a taxi driver, was arrested for the murder and admitted that he robbed and had sex with the victim.
Links: USA, SF, Sex, Murder

1999 May 24

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that schools can be held liable for students sexually harassing other students. The court also ruled that police violate the 4th Amendment right to privacy when they allow the media into people's homes to document arrests and raids.
Links: USA, Sex, Supreme Court

1999 Jun 30

In Canada the highest court in BC upheld a ruling that Canada's law against the possession of child pornography is unconstitutional.
Links: Canada, Sex

1999 Jul 2

A 3-day UN conference on population closed after 170 nations agreed on sex education, access to abortion and parental rights.
Links: UN, Sex

In Finland the village of Kutemajarvi planned a sex fair for people over age 45 to commemorate the UN designation of 1999 as the Int'l. Year of Older Persons.
Links: UN, Finland, Sex

1999 Oct 26

In the Netherlands the Parliament overturned a 1912 ban on brothels.
Links: Netherlands, Sex

1999 Dec 1

It was reported that the French government had decided to make morning-after contraception pills available to teenage girls through school nurses. 10,000 girls under 18 were becoming pregnant each year and 6,000 were having abortions.
Links: France, Sex, Pharma

Sex change operations in the US grew at a 10% annual rate to 5,000.
Links: USA, Sex

1999

Jill Campbell and her husband, Gary, compiled evidence that helped convict the director of an Ethiopian orphanage that the Swiss charity Terre Des Hommes-Lausanne used to run. Their report on sexual abuse prompted the charity to apologize and leave Ethiopia. In 2001 Jill Campbell was convicted of defamation and ordered to apologize to Terre Des Hommes-Lausanne (TdH) or face jail. In 2003, an Ethiopian court sentenced orphanage director David Christie to nine years of hard labor for abusing several young boys. In 2008 lawyers for the charity said it had dropped the demand for an apology.
Links: Switzerland, Ethiopia, Sex

1999

Sweden established its so-called "Sex Purchase Law," where paying for sex is punished by fines or up to six months in prison, plus the humiliation of public exposure. Sweden became the first country to criminalize the purchase of sex.
Links: Sweden, Sex

1999

Leslie Cunliffe, dubbed the "Silence of the Lambs" rapist by Australian authorities, posed as a policeman to abduct a 21-year-old woman at gunpoint from the southern city of Geelong and locked her in a backyard shed with padded walls. He served 12 years in prison for the torture and rape.
Links: Australia, Sex, Rape

Dr. Alex Comfort, British author of the 1972 "Joy of Sex," died at age 80 in Oxfordshire. Comfort wrote some 50 books that included novels, poetry, criticism, scientific texts and works on Eastern philosophy.
Links: Britain, Writer, Sex

The US FDA approved the first device to aid women with sexual dysfunction.
Links: USA, Sex

2000 May 22

The Supreme Court struck down, 5-to-4, a federal law that shielded children from sex-oriented cable TV channels. The US Supreme Court invalidated part of a 1996 law that relegated pornography on cable TV to late-night hours.
Links: USA, TV, Sex, Supreme Court

In Nigeria Bariya Magazu (19) was flogged 100 times for having premarital sex under Islamic law (sharia).
Links: Sex, Nigeria

2001 Feb 16

Dr. William H. Masters (b.1915), leading researcher in human sexuality, died at age 85 in Tucson, Ariz. He and Virginia Johnson (Masters and Johnson) authored the best seller "Human Sexual Response" in 1966.
Links: Sex

2001 Feb 22

A UN tribunal on Yugoslav War Crimes found 3 Bosnian Serbs guilty of crimes against humanity for the rape, torture and enslavement of Muslim women in Foca between 1992-1993. The landmark case established rape and sexual enslavement as a crime against humanity. They were sentenced to 28, 20 and 12 years, respectively.
Links: Bosnia, Serbia, UN, Sex, Yugoslavia, Rape

The US Institute of Medicine issued a 206-page report on the differences in health and disease due to sex in humans.
Links: USA, Medical, Sex

2001 Apr 30

The SF Board of Supervisors passed a measure 9-2 to allow city employees medical benefits for a sex change.
Links: SF, Sex

2001 May 14

Tom Green (52), a bigamist with 5 wives and 29 children, went on trial in SLC for bigamy. Green was convicted May 18 of 4 counts of bigamy and one count of failure to pay child support. Green was sentenced to 5 years in prison and ordered to pay $78,000 to the state for fraudulent welfare checks. In 2002 Green was convicted of child rape for impregnating one wife at age 13. Green was released from prison in 2007.
Links: USA, Utah, Sex, Rape

2001 Jun 17

In Egypt the Cairo weekly Al Nabaa published a sex scandal along with pictures at the Coptic Christian Muhariq monastery in Assiut between former monk Adel Saadallah Gabriel and an unidentified woman. Publisher Mamdouh Mahran was charged with disturbing the peace. Al-Nabaa was banned from publishing on July 5 and Mahran faced charges of sedition.
Links: Egypt, Sex

2001 Jul 3

In Columbus, Ohio, Brian Dalton (22) was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fiction writing in his journal about sexually abusing and torturing children.
Links: Ohio, Sex

In Egypt a trial began for 52 men arrested on charges of obscene behavior and contempt of religion. The men were arrested May 11 at the Queen Boat nightclub in Cairo. On Nov 14, 23 men were sentenced up to 5 years in prison and 29 were acquitted. In 2002 Pres. Mubarak tossed out the verdicts against all but 2 of the 52 defendants.
Links: Egypt, Sex

2001 Jul 30

In South Africa Catholic bishops denounced condoms as "immoral and misguided" weapons against AIDS.
Links: South Africa, Sex, AIDS, Religion

2001 Aug 8

US Federal authorities announced the arrests of 100 people nationwide in an Internet child pornography operation, Landslide Productions Inc., based in Fort Worth, Tx.
Links: USA, Sex, Texas

Peru moved to create autonomous regional governments and to give them more revenues. Mayor Wenceslao Alderete of Huayre, hoping to attract tourists, spent $158,000 to create an erotic sculpture park in the central plaza. In 2006 the town still lacked paved streets and a sewage system.
Links: Peru, Sex

2001

Gyorgy Gattyan, a Hungarian entrepreneur, launched LiveJasmin, an Internet cam company featuring live sex chats. The garage project later became Docler Holding. In 2013 the company became headquartered in Luxembourg. By 2015 he was Hungary’s richest man and his porn site LiveJasmin received 40m visitors a day.
Links: Hungary, Sex, Internet

2001

In Canada the website AshleyMadison.com was launched with the slogan, “Life is short. Have an affair.”
Links: Canada, Sex, Internet

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2002 Apr 16

The US Supreme Court ruled as unconstitutional a ban on simulated depictions of child sex. The Court overturned 2 major provisions of the 1996 Child Pornography Prevention Act, saying the government went too far in trying to ban "virtual" child pornography.
Links: USA, Sex, Supreme Court

2002 Apr 22

Linda Boreman (53), who starred as Linda Lovelace in the 1972 porno film "Deep Throat," died in Denver from Apr 3 car crash injuries. Boreman became an anti-porn advocate after the film and authored "Ordeal" in 1980.
Links: Filmstar, Sex

In Meerwala, Pakistan, Mukhtar Mai (18) was gang raped in the Punjab on orders from a tribal council after her brother (13) was accused of socializing with a higher-caste Mastoi girl. It was later reported that the affair was fabricated to cover up sodomy of boy by Mastoi tribesmen. Six death sentences were handed down for the crime on Sep 1. In 2005 a lower court overturned 5 convictions, but Pakistan’s high court threw out the acquittal. In 2009 Mukhtar Mai married the police officer who was assigned to protect her as her case gained notoriety, becoming his 2nd wife. On april 21, 2011, Pakistan's Supreme Court freed five men accused in the gang-rape. The ruling left just one of the initial 14 suspects in prison.
Links: Pakistan, Sex, Rape

In NYC WNEW-FM radio shock jocks Gregg Hughes and Anthony Cumia aired an eyewitness account of a couple having sex in the vestibule of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Their show was cancelled Aug 23.
Links: USA, NYC, Radio, Sex

2002 Aug 19

An Islamic high court in northern Nigeria rejected an appeal by Amina Lawal, a single mother sentenced to be stoned to death for having sex out of wedlock.
Links: Sex, Nigeria

2002 Aug 26

In Nigeria an Islamic court has sentenced a couple to death by stoning for having an affair, marking the first time in Nigeria that a man has been sentenced to death for adultery.
Links: Sex, Nigeria

A nasal spray named PT-141, made by Palatin Tech., was reported to raise sexual desire.
Links: Sex, Pharma

2002 Oct 9

Aileen Wuornos (46), a former prostitute, was executed for killing 6 men along Florida highways. She became the 10th woman executed in the US since capital punishment resumed in 1977.
Links: Sex, Murder, Florida

2002 Oct 18

According to Greek scientists, the length of a man's index finger can accurately predict the length of his penis. The findings are published in the September issue of the journal Urology.
Links: Greece, Sex

A poll of 50,000 people, commissioned by Durex condom makers SSL International and released in Malaysia, showed the French had sex an average 167 times a year, pipping the Danes and the Dutch for the number one spot. It was a bad year for sex in the United States, which came in eleventh with an average of 138, after heading the rankings in 2001. Britons scored an average of 149 times. At the bottom of the pile, Singapore's 110 times was two less than Thailand's. Four in 10 people in India did not have sex until they were married and Norwegians were most likely to have sex on the first date, the survey showed. Norwegians, along with South Africans, were also more likely than any other nationality to have a one-night stand. Those in Taiwan were least likely; just 20 percent surveyed had a one-night stand.
Links: Britain, USA, France, India, Taiwan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Thailand, Singapore, South Africa, Sex, Denmark, Norway

In Montenegro Svetlana C. (28) of Moldava escaped from a brothel near the capital, Podgorica, and went to the police. Local newspapers reported that politicians and other members of Montenegro's ruling elite frequented the brothel and took part in orgies at which women were tortured.
Links: Montenegro, Sex, Moldova

2002 Dec

In Romania Kurt W. Treptow of Miami Beach, Fl., was sentenced to the maximum of seven years in for offenses involving two girls, ages 10 and 13, whom he invited into his home in Iasi. A Romanian woman was also convicted of being his accomplice. Treptow was released in 2007 after writing a book entitled "The life and Times of Vlad Dracul" while in prison.
Links: Romania, USA, Historian, Writer, Sex, Florida